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.455" Webley
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:50 am
by Aughnanure
Has anyone ever read of a .455 Webley revolver being single loaded with a .303 round. I know that it can be done as have tried the experiment but can't find any reference to an account that I read of an Officer doing it in WW II.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:59 am
by dromia
Sounds like an act of desperation or stupidity myself.
You might want to have a look in Cptn C Shore's (who gives a bairn a name like that?) with "British Snipers to the Reich" I seem to remember him twittering on about wrong chambering in his ramblings.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:31 am
by Tom-May
Surely, as the chamber rotates on cocking the pistol and a .303 round is somewhat longer than the chamber of a Webly, wouldn't chambering the rifle round cause the pistol chamber to jam, thus preventing the pistol from cocking?
Tom
(who's never tried the experiment)
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:45 am
by Aughnanure
Tom,
The pistol is cocked before opening and,as you soy, the case protrudes into the barrel, a piece of card or some such is used to hold the pawl back in the body while the gun is closed.
Adam,
As I remember it was an act of desperation that I read about.
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:15 pm
by A square 10
OK , i just satisfied myself it could be done , but ive gotta say it would be my last gasping act in terms of avoiding falling into the hands of those that dont abide by conventions we subscribe to .................or perhaps if the doctor gives me a bad reveiw ?